Bug ID 508990: Text log has negative clock value

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP LTM(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
11.4.1, 11.6.0, 11.6.1, 11.6.2, 11.6.3, 11.6.3.1, 11.6.3.2, 11.6.3.3, 11.6.3.4, 11.6.4, 11.6.5, 11.6.5.1, 11.6.5.2, 11.6.5.3

Fixed In:
12.1.0

Opened: Feb 24, 2015

Severity: 4-Minor

Symptoms

Certain hardware errors report a negative clock value in text logs.

Impact

The negative clock value is negative but has no impact to the system. The hardware issue needs to be investigated. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Conditions

TMM was having trouble attaching to Cavium devices, and thus causing a lot of TMM restarts.

Workaround

none

Fix Information

Fixed by printing unsigned using %u instead of %d.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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